What's the difference between preoccupied and restless?

Preoccupied


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Preoccupy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
  • (2) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
  • (3) Alcohol abusers describe themselves as less warm, kind, gentle, and emotionally expressive than their classmates, and were more preoccupied with themes of power in spontaneous fantasy productions.
  • (4) Some journalists have read it as yet another sign that Merkel has lost interest in domestic politics and is preoccupied with challenges on the global stage.
  • (5) Our research has found that leaders are preoccupied with change within their own departments and they struggle to work effectively across boundaries even when there are clearly shared interests.
  • (6) Despite more pronounced somatic complaints, women view their psychological situation more positively than men; they are more optimistic, less anxious, less depressed, and less preoccupied with their illness and its consequences.
  • (7) While Syria , migration and Russia are preoccupying western governments, Israel and Palestine have been largely left to their own devices.
  • (8) While a US presidential visit would normally be expected to command the lion's share of attention in South Korea, the country remains preoccupied with the misery wrought by the sinking of the passenger ferry.
  • (9) It is more important to understand this now than ever before, because never before have we been so preoccupied with social and economic issues: a preoccupation that is threatening to divert our attention from the main determinants of our specialty's future viability--the acquisition and application of new knowledge.
  • (10) The effects of regular aerobic exercise are important to an aging society increasingly preoccupied with exercise.
  • (11) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (12) Republicans accused the administration of putting out the update at a time when Washington was preoccupied with the pope’s visit.
  • (13) Dying and death have scarcely before our time preoccupied so many.
  • (14) Part of Putin's brain is transplanted into Berlusconi's head, turning him into a confused, Russian-speaking, vodka-drinking man, preoccupied with men stuck in a submarine.
  • (15) Nineteen of the 100 veterans had made a postservice suicide attempt, and 15 more had been preoccupied with suicide since the war.
  • (16) On the basis of interviews and printed primary sources, the paper argues that Treasury officials made a less than rigorous assessment of the impact of cafeteria plans because they were preoccupied with a larger agenda of making tax-free benefits more equitable.
  • (17) He says that while he and I would never dream of failing to acknowledge our own children, he believes Turner was too preoccupied to think about them.
  • (18) Women had less to say and seemed less familiar with the discourse on bonding, and were less preoccupied with the establishment of close mother-infant relationship.
  • (19) But I’ll have a chicken curry afterwards.” However, Richard seemed more preoccupied with deciding what to call Morrissey.
  • (20) In their attempts to explain observed patterns in population dynamics and community structure, ecologists have, until recently, been preoccupied with the effects of predation and competition.

Restless


Definition:

  • (a.) Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
  • (a.) Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects.
  • (a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
  • (a.) Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
  • (a.) Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
  • (2) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
  • (3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (4) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
  • (5) The restless legs syndrome is a sensory and motor disorder of evening, repose, and sleep.
  • (6) Seven patients suffering from restless legs syndrome (RLS) and periodic movements in sleep (PMS) were investigated before and after treatment with L-Dopa.
  • (7) There have even been signs that Löw is becoming slightly restless, having started to criticise players in public, something that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
  • (8) After a restless night I unwound the trade the following morning at a small profit.
  • (9) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.
  • (10) We conclude that the restless mutation alters a Ca2+-activated potassium conductance other than the one previously described.
  • (11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
  • (12) Ratings on visual analogue scales showed that metoclopramide caused statistically significant (P less than 0.01 difference from placebo) restlessness and slight but significantly less (P less than 0.05 difference from placebo) feeling of happiness.
  • (13) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
  • (14) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
  • (15) of exposure, but two of these had been rather restless throughout the session.
  • (16) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
  • (17) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
  • (18) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
  • (19) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (20) It includes gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and restlessness.